First, I’d like to say “nice work” to our bloggers for this week. What a detailed account of the talk! That said, I’d like to take a stab at responding to the second prompt.
Great questions! I would like to respond to prompt one, because I think it’s important. I also think that Lenin provides us an answer to this question in State and Revolution (S & R)–at least within […]
I would like to respond briefly to question 1: Is historical materialism a trans-historical social science or are its categories specific to capitalist societies? The question reminded me of a statement Terry […]
Great summary of the conversation Katz led as well as questions for further thought. As someone studying composition and rhetoric at CUNY, I actually think a lot about how university functions to reproduce the […]
I just want to respond quickly to Austin’s liberal pluralist suggestion that we may need to think of social “totality” as “totalities” in order to avoid reifiying the term, if I’m reading his post correctly. I […]
I agree with Anthony to a point. I think understanding how workers experience alienation at the point of production is very important for the development of political consciousness and for solidarity building. Of […]
